Tweets for Today

( Cut to spare the uninterested )

Happy birthday

Happy birthday to my wise and wickedly funny friend, nmalfoy. Smooches and vodka, baby.

Congratulations, Neil!

Congratulations to Neil Gaiman, winner of this year's Newbery Award for The Graveyard Book!

The Girl Effect

Help a girl. Save the world.

My decrease worldsuck project for the day: Distributed Proofreading

Hey, I found my Decrease Worldsuck project for the day, and it's a perfect one for a person who is a writer: Distributed Proofreading.

Project Gutenberg puts public-domain books online for free. But between scanning the books and offering the text files, someone needs to proofread. That's what the volunteers at Distributed Proofreading do. All you need to do is offer a human eye to a scanned page and its computer-made text version. No grammar or spelling skills required; just make the new text match the original. Give the world something good to read.

( So here's what I did today to make the world a better place )

Playing for Change "Stand By Me" now available on iTunes

Remember that cool video I linked to a short time ago, "Stand By Me"? I signed up with the organization, Playing for Change, and they sent me this email today:

PLAYING FOR CHANGE is thrilled to announce that our first two Songs Around the World "Stand By Me" and "Don't Worry" are now available on iTunes!

Click HERE to purchase the songs now!! A portion of the sales of these downloads goes to the Playing For Change Foundation, building and supporting music and arts schools around the world.

WE ARE SO EXCITED TO MAKE THIS AVAILABLE TO YOU- OUR COMMUNITY- AND THANK YOU FOR ALL OF YOUR SUPPORT!

One Love, the Playing For Change Family

You can buy the two songs/videos together for $2.49. Great songs, and a worthy cause.